Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Seminar Calendar
March 1-15, 2011
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Tuesday, March 1
Sakharov Human Rights Book Seminar
"The Chechen Struggle: Independence Won and Lost"
Ilyas Akhmadov, Former Foreign Minister of Chechen Separatist Government
Miriam Lanskoy, Senior Program Officer, Central Asia and the Caucasus National Endowment
for Democracy
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Wednesday, March 2
Director's Seminar
"Russian Traditional Media vs. Blogosphere - Parallel or Perpendicular"
Mikhail Gusman, First Deputy Director-General ITAR-TASS
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*This lecture will be delivered in Russian and translated into English*
Thursday, March 3
Historians' Seminar
"Stalin and the Origins of the Second World War Revisited"
Gabriel Gorodetsky, Fellow, All Souls College Oxford; Visiting Member, Institute for
Advanced Study, Princeton
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Friday, March 4
Early Slavists' Seminar
"Representing the Murder of Andrei Bogoliubskii: Art versus Science"
Michael S. Flier, Oleksandr Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology; Director, Harvard
Ukrainian Research Institute; Faculty Associate, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Tuesday, March 8
Historians' Seminar
"Equality and Revolution: Women's Rights in the Russian Empire, 1905-1917"
Rochelle Ruthchild, Professor Emerita of Graduate Studies, The Union Institute and
University; Center Associate, Davis Center
Moderator: Elizabeth Wood, Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Center Associate, Davis Center
Discussant: Philippa Hetherington, PhD candidate, History, Harvard University; Graduate
Student Associate, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
Tuesday, March 15
Cold War Studies Seminar
"Foreigners in the Soviet Gulag, 1945-1953"
Stefan Karner, Director, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for War Research (Austria); Professor
of Modern History, University of Graz
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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